sometimes we delay in asking for
forgiveness. we know we’ve done
something wrong and we know we could take it to GOD and ask for forgiveness but
for some reason we procrastinate. we
wait. there’s a lot of reasons for
that. sometimes we think, “i don’t
want to bother HIM again.”
but it doesn’t bother GOD. HE’s big enough to listen to all of our requests, all day. that’s the kind of GOD that HE is. you’re not bothering GOD.
sometimes we think, “what i’ll do is get my life all together, all worked out, perfect in at least this one area and then i’ll go to GOD and say, ‘GOD, i’ve got it worked out. now i want to confess it.’”
don’t wait! it never works. first of all you’re never going to be perfect. you’re always going to have things you struggle with. and secondly, one of the ways to grow in your life is to confess it to GOD, to realize HIS forgiveness and then grow based on that.
realize that guilt in many ways is like garbage. you have to take it out repeatedly. in your house you have to take out the garbage repeatedly or the house starts stinking. that’s how life works.
i’d guess that for most of you in your house you have different sized containers for your trash, your garbage. in your bathroom you probably have one of those tiny, little containers for garbage. under your kitchen sink you probably have a medium sized container for garbage. out in your back yard or in your garage you have one of those big huge industrial things to put everything in. that’s where you take out the trash.
when the trash starts to fill up in your kitchen, what do you do? you don’t get a bigger garbage container to hold the trash in your kitchen and fill it up. that one fills up and you bring in bigger container and fill it up. you bring in the one from outside and put it in the middle of your kitchen and fill that one up. you don’t do it that way. when the trash fills up, you take out the trash.
it’s the same way with our sins. when we’ve realized that we’ve sinned what do we do? you take out the trash. you say to GOD, “i confess it. i realize that YOU’ve forgiven me.”
listen, it’s foolish to let the garbage pile up in your house and smell up everything. and it’s just as foolish, even more foolish, to let guilt pile up in your life.
just a thought from the front porch…
but it doesn’t bother GOD. HE’s big enough to listen to all of our requests, all day. that’s the kind of GOD that HE is. you’re not bothering GOD.
sometimes we think, “what i’ll do is get my life all together, all worked out, perfect in at least this one area and then i’ll go to GOD and say, ‘GOD, i’ve got it worked out. now i want to confess it.’”
don’t wait! it never works. first of all you’re never going to be perfect. you’re always going to have things you struggle with. and secondly, one of the ways to grow in your life is to confess it to GOD, to realize HIS forgiveness and then grow based on that.
realize that guilt in many ways is like garbage. you have to take it out repeatedly. in your house you have to take out the garbage repeatedly or the house starts stinking. that’s how life works.
i’d guess that for most of you in your house you have different sized containers for your trash, your garbage. in your bathroom you probably have one of those tiny, little containers for garbage. under your kitchen sink you probably have a medium sized container for garbage. out in your back yard or in your garage you have one of those big huge industrial things to put everything in. that’s where you take out the trash.
when the trash starts to fill up in your kitchen, what do you do? you don’t get a bigger garbage container to hold the trash in your kitchen and fill it up. that one fills up and you bring in bigger container and fill it up. you bring in the one from outside and put it in the middle of your kitchen and fill that one up. you don’t do it that way. when the trash fills up, you take out the trash.
it’s the same way with our sins. when we’ve realized that we’ve sinned what do we do? you take out the trash. you say to GOD, “i confess it. i realize that YOU’ve forgiven me.”
listen, it’s foolish to let the garbage pile up in your house and smell up everything. and it’s just as foolish, even more foolish, to let guilt pile up in your life.
just a thought from the front porch…
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